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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Utility regulators voted yesterday to fine Pennsylvania’s largest gas utility
$500,000 for a 2011 natural-gas explosion that killed five people in Allentown. They called the
company’s safety record “downright alarming.”

The Public Utility Commission unanimously approved modifications to a settlement with UGI Corp.
that boosted the civil fine from $386,000 to the maximum allowed by law at the time of the
explosion.

The settlement also requires the Reading, Pa.-based company to replace all its cast-iron
pipelines within 14 years and expand and enhance its testing and monitoring programs.

The thunderous blast, which was traced to a crack in a cast-iron gas main, killed five people,
flattened a pair of rowhouses and set fire to a block of homes late one night in February 2011.